No Kings in NYC or USA
Kevin McKeon | New York, United States
Photographer: Kevin McKeon
Exhibit Title: No Kings in NYC or USA
Location: New York, United States
On March 28, 2026, an estimated 8 million people participated in more than 3,300 protests across America, under the banner of "No Kings." Perhaps no city in the world is as diverse and interconnected as New York City, and on this day in midtown Manhattan, tens of thousands of individual New Yorkers representing every age, ethnic and religious group, and every socio-economic background, joined hands and raised loud voices to express their outrage over the ongoing and often illegal attacks on our judicial system, constitution, immigrant rights, and international law perpetrated by the Trump Administrations. The phrase "No Kings" was concieved as a way to cut through the noise of a thousand individual outrages, and bring people together under a single message - in America, there are no kings. There is only democracy. On this day, New York, and the entire country, expressed that message loudly, and clearly.
I've been participating in the anti-Trump protest rallies and marches since the final days before Donald Trump took office. My approach to covering this historic period in American history is to share the experience from a participant's point of view, a place where I'm always most comfortable as a photographer, and as a person, too. I march, I chant, I shoot what I see around me. My focus is less in the clever signs (though there are certainly plenty of those), and more on the individuals behind them. This is where, for me, the most powerful narrative always lies.
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